Manic Street Preachers (remastered and reissued)

Hi ,I have to admit i loved Motown Junk and the early singles you love us , stay beautifull etc   they were an exciting band both live and on record origionally despite the media hype , sadly for me they became just another  staduim filling indie act and i lost interest. 

 That said i will probably get  a copy of this as i sold my vinyl collection a few years ago . yes i regret that before you ask

Yes after the debut it was a steady decline towards overproduced radio-friendly albums which was when I lost interest too. Its often put down to Richey's departure (tis sad they have not recovered his body) I only saw them shortly after he was no longer around. They had an eclectic mix of the fanatical fans at the front all dressed in leopard skins, pink hair, tiaras and frilly things. Then along the back and the outskirts portly gentlemen drinking lots of larger, occassionally swinging from side to side and nodding with appreciation and then somewhere mixed in the middle were bog-standard schoolboys (me), school sixthformers and others.

That gig description is spot on , i saw them in wolverhamton civic hall in the early nineties .i cant remember exactly when.  i seem to remember a few cross dressers in the mosh pit , feather boas getting thrown about and a more threatening element in the wings ready to thump any mosh pit stragglers.. Happy days indeed.

in some ways they were competing with the  Grunge bands at the time and were a bit  gimmicky but good luck to them , they were fun at the time but a band you could quickly grow out of.

call me sad but i just trawled through songkick website,, the gig i refer to was the Wulfren hall ( smaller civic venue ) wolverhampton on 24th march 1992 .. still taste the warm lager now

TWP